adjust

Verb

adjust (third-person singular simple present adjusts, present participle adjusting, simple past and past participle adjusted)

1. (transitive) To modify.
   • Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.
   • As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their...2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848

   Synonyms:

   change, edit, modify, set, measure

2. (transitive) To improve or rectify.
   • He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.
   • But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11
3. (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
   • Murder is dealt with by the law of blood-revenge, but the innocent manslayer may seek asylum at God's altar. With murder are ranked man-stealing, offences against parents, and witchcraft. Other injuries are occasions of self-help or of private suits to be adjusted at the sanctuary.1892, W. Robertson Smith, The Old Testament in the Jewish Church, page 340
4. (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
   • Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community.
   • She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.

   Synonyms:

   accommodate